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34. io6 INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION Time Idle Between Positions [312 Time lost Less than i week . . 1 week to 2 weeks .. 2 weeks to i month 1-2 months 2-3 " 3-4 " 4-S " S-6 " 6-7 " 7-8 " 8-9 " 9-10 " lO-II " ii-ie " Over 12 months Total Percentage 25-3 33-3 14.8 10.8 S-9 2.7 1.8 1-7 .7 .8 .8 •S .2 • 3 .4 lOO.O between 14 and 16 years work but half the time, and spend one of the two years in idleness. Dr. Woodbury's investi- gation of the 7000 Connecticut children showed that " 10.2 percent of the tota...l work histories of these children was spent in unemployment." ' Many believe that such changing from job to job is good for a child, and that by trying various trades he acquires ex- perience; that by learning what he cannot do, he finds what he can do, and that the hard school of experience teaches him resourcefulness. Such people approve Emerson's lauda- tion of the lad " who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet." When they speak of the advantages of changing positions, they are really thinking, however, of tasks under the open sky or beside the work-bench ; of positions which develop man- 1 Woodbury, op.
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